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Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…
Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...
London: printed for Simon Miller, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The sixth and last thing premised is this, That this seal of regeneration, wherever it is truly stamped by the holy Spirit of God,1 is Gods mark, and the souls earnest for Heavens eternity; The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself, Psal. 4.3. The person thus sealed is a sequestered person, sequestered for the Lords use, sealed unto the day of redemption; Where note, That this seal of regeneration, doth confirm and make sure the love of God unto the person on which it is set, as well as the other, though not always to the apprehension of the person.
The sixth and last thing premised is this, That this seal of regeneration, whereever it is truly stamped by the holy Spirit of God,1 is Gods mark, and the soules earnest for Heavens eternity; The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself, Psal. 4.3. The person thus sealed is a sequestred person, sequestred for the Lords use, sealed unto the day of redemption; Where note, That this seal of regeneration, doth confirme and make sure the love of God unto the person on which it is set, as well as the other, though not alwayes to the apprehension of the person.
- 1The saving graces of the Spirit, are called, The earnest of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 5.5.
Object. But Satan doth many times counterfeit this seal, and thereby cheats and cousins many a soul; He counterfeiteth holiness, and persuades the soul, that is but seemingly regenerate, that he is truly regenerate; and him that hath but civill holiness, that he hath saving holiness; and by this sophistry of his, cheats and undoth many a soul; How shall I then come truly to discern, whether the demonstrative seal, set upon my self, be indeed the seal of the holy Spirit of God